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75th Year - No. 93 Good Morning! It's Friday, December 31, 1P82 3 Sections - 14 Pages - 25 Cents
Liquor store employee John Lee
Brown, right, stands among debris af- - i
ter about 100 looters smashed into the
Overtown business Thursday. Below, ,
Miami police make an arrest after the '
looting, in which $ 80,000 of liquor was
taken or destroyed.
Miami quiet
after rioting
flares again
MIAMI ( UPI) Authorities lifted barricades
and allowed bars and liquor stores to open again
Thursday night in the Overtown ghetto,
wracked by two days of rioting that left two peo-ple
dead and 26 injured.
Earlier in the day looters swarmed back into
a liquor store they had previously sacked and
when heavily armed police dragged them out an
angry crowd gathered, shouting insults and
taunting the officers.
A small vacant house just outside the police
perimeter burned and Miami Fire Department
Capt. Ray Mears said " I can't say whether it's
related to all this going on around here, but
somebody had to light that stuff. It didn't just
start burning by itself."
About 50 neighborhood residents watched fire-men
extinguish the blaze.
Police reported scattered incidents of black
youths throwing rocks and bottles at motorists.
Shortly after nightfall City Manager Howard
Gary withdrew police task forces and lifted his
restncbons placed on a 250- blo- ck area of Over- tow- n
Tuesday. It meant that citizens could enter
and leave the area freely and bars, liquor stores
and service stations could reopen.
" I am asking the community and leaders to
keep up the good work," said Gary, who is
black. He said 150 to 200 policemen would re-main
at perimeter outposts around the area,
and the normal patrols in Overtown 40 to 45
men on a shift would resume.
By mid- evefli- ng as many as half the bars in
the district had re- open- ed, and reported only
normal business.
Gary also said the Orange Bowl parade Fri-day
night, which passes near the ghetto, would
go on as usual. " We have implemented the nec-essary
programs to ensure Uie safety and con-venience,
as we always have in the past, for
large numbers of people," he said.
Police said small bands of blacks continued to
create minor disturbances in the area, but over-all
the situation was the most peaceful it has
been since the violence erupted Tuesday eve-ning.
Authorities also reported no trouble in the
nearby Liberty City area, where three days of
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reasWmMmmF. MmMmmmm
noting killed 18 people in 1980, and rock- and- bot-- tle
throwmg broke out Wednesday night.
" You guys are just waiting with your shot-guns
to kill a nigger. All you want to do is kill
ruggers," the black youths shouted at officers
outside the liquor store earlier.
The crowd grew even angrier when the police
attempted a show of force by marching two
abreast in formation through the streets of the
ghetto.
Officers acting as " drill sergeants" barked
orders at the lines of about 75 patrolmen clad in
shiny black riot helmets, bullet- pro- of vests and
carrying clear plexiglas shields, clubs and shot-guns.
" Let's close up those lines," one chief officer
yelled. " Keep ' em straight. About face. For-ward
march."
The lines marched up and down the streets in
no apparent Section drawing jeering young
blacks to each corner.
UPI Telephotos
Some youths began hurling bottles from the li-quor
store into the streets, which were Uttered
with broken bottles, cancelled checks and other
debns from the earlier looting.
" They took what they wanted and busted ev-erything
else before they left," said John Lee
Brown, 33, who was m the shop repairing dam-age
when the first wave of about 100 looters hit.
He said they carted off or destroyed $ 80,000
worth of liquor.
Police quickly broke up the first band of loot-ers
by lobbing tear gas canisters into their
midst, sending them coughing and scrambling
for fresh air. Several were taken into custody.
At least 40 people have been arrested since
the rioting began, most for them for burglary
and looting. Three businesses have been de-stroyed
and four others badly damaged.
Brown said the liquor store owners planned to
put steel across the front of the building to pre-vent
further raids.
Economic indicators improve
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - The in-dex
of leading economic indicators
climbed 0.8 percent in November
and continued to point toward an
economic recovery eagerly awaited
since spring, the government said
Thursday.
Seven of the 10 individual mea-surements
making up the Commerce
Department's composite index
showed improvement and made the
month's change more broadly based
than any since July although still
relatively shallow.
President Reagan's spokesman
said the report is a signal that " the
economy will recover."
In a separate report that contained
more substantial good news for the
economy, the department said
Thursday the sale of new houses
jumped 12 percent in November to
the highest rate in two years.
The housing industry's suppliers
are widely dispersed throughout the
economy, prompting analysts in and
Housing sales jump 12 percent
out of the government to hope the
improvement will spread.
The rise in sales occurred despite
an enormous jump in the average
price of a new house, to $ 88,600 from
October's $ 79,800.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm
Baldrige called the month's increase
in the indicators " a good advance,"
but noted the index " points to an
economy moving toward recovery,"
not one that is already getting well.
Baldrige blamed high interest
rates, which persisted into July, for
causing " the unusually long lag be-tween
the first rises in the- leadin- g in-dicators
and the recovery."
The index had climbed a revised
0.3 percent in October and 0.8 per-cent
in September. It began sending
tantalizing signals of improvement
in April, a period when administra-tion
spokesmen were most confident- -
ly predicting an imminent recovery.
However, the recession has per-sisted,
driving unemployment to 10.8
percent, the highest level since the
Great Depression.
At Palm Springs, Calif., deputy
White House press secretary Larry
Speakes told reporters the new indi-cators
" provide an additional en-couragement
that the economy will
recover from the current recession.
" We regard these indicators as an
important signal that the foundation
for recovery is developing in the
coming year," he said.
However, critics of the index say it
is too easily swayed- - by large
movements in purely financial mea-surements
and does not accurately
predict actual business conditions
that determine production and em-ployment.
Columbia's unemployment rate
lowest of state's major cities
By Bennle M. Currle
Mlssourian staff writer
Missouri's unemployment rate has
increased a little more than 2 per-cent
in the last year, but Columbia's
remains the lowest of any major city
in the state, according to the Missou-ri
Division of Employment Security.
The state's November jobless rate
was 9.4 percent, up from 8.7 percent
in October and up from 7.3 percent in
November 1981. That means 214,142
Missourians are now out of a job,
said Tom Righthouse, the division's
chief of research and analysis.
Columbia's November unemploy-ment
rate of 5.7 percent is up from
October's rate of 5.3 percent and is
exactly-- 1 percentage point higher
than it was in November 1881.
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Jobless rates I
Columbia .57 B
Joplln .. 96 H
Kansas City 86 1
St Joseph 104 n
St Louis .10 2 I Springfield 82
There were 3,255 Columbians out
of Jobs in November, Righthouse
said.
While Columbia's jobless rate has
risen, it still remains the lowest of
any major city in Missouri.
Springfield's unemployment rate
of 8.2 percent is the second lowest of
the state's major cities.
The division attributed the state's
high jobless rate to a decrease in ag-ricultural
activity and layoffs in the
construction industry.
9 p. m. to 1 a. m. " Tuxedo Junction,"
an evening of dancing to music pro-vided
by Jim Widner's Big Band. At
Ramada Inn, 1100 Vandiver Drive.
Tickets are $ 60 per couple including
dinner, $ 35 per couple without dinner.
Inside
Business 5A
Classified 3CA
Comics 4B
Opinion 4A
Record SA
Sports 1- 2- C
Columbian named
curator candidate
Officials laud Bond's selection
By Scott Schultz
Missounan staff writer
Jeanne Epple, executive director
of the Boone County Mental Health
Association, is one of three Missour-ians
whom Gov Christopher Bond
plans to appoint to the University
Board of Curators
Bond announced Thursday that he
intends to name Vrs Epple, 3412
Woodrail Terrace, Kenneth Heath,
East Prairie, Mo ; and W H. Bates,
Kansas City, Mo , to fill the vacan-cies
of outgoing members, William
Doak, Robert Dempster and Daniel
Brenner
Friends and co- work- ers of Mrs.
Epple were excited about Bond's
choice of Mrs Epple
" I was just thinking of writing
Governor Bond a note to congratu-late
him on making the best possible
appointment he could have made,"
said Grace Edwards, chairman of
the Boone County Republican Cen-tral
Committee
Associate University Provost
Charles Campbell applauded the
governor's selection of Mrs Epple
' She has clearly demonstrated in
a number of community, civic and
service organizations her intelli
gence, ability to ponder complex is-sues,
and then move ahead with per-sonal
resolve," Campbell said
Campbell said Mrs. Epple " will
understand the role of a land grant
institution," which he likened to a
three- legge- d stool He said the three
missions of these institutions are re- - ,
search, campus teach i and exten-sion
services These r i scions the
legs of the stool t - J ap th insti-tution
Campbell said that during tight
economic times, administrators tend
to concentrate on improving one
mission at the expense of the others,
which could topple the chair
" Mrs. Epple will keep the legs on
that three- legge- d chair well- balanced- ."
he said.
The appointments to the board are
for six- ye- ar terms and must be ap-proved
by the state Senate.
Mrs. Epple would become the sec-ond
woman on the board
The other is Marion Oldham of St.
Louis. Her six- ye- ar term will expire
in two years The board has been the
center of much controversy in recent
years, the most recent of which was
Mrs Oldham's charge last week that
she was not elected board president
because she is black.
City Council to tackle
power plant controversy
By Dean Kahn
Missounar staff writer
When the city's Droposed power
plant stady is presented to the City
Council for consideration Monday, a
$ 37,000 slice will be left unresolved
That money w ould pay for a study
of whethe' the city should take over
operation of tne Umv ersity's power
plant
The city ays the University re-quested
that study and should help
pay for it Uni. ersitj officials are
questioning whether they would get
their money -- vorth ,
The camnus plant study is an op-tional
part of the city's overall pow-er
plant rehabilitation study At the
council's previous meeting, the city
staff reconnrpended that a Minneapo-lis
firm, Henningson, Durham &
Richardson, be paid $ 121,000 to de-velop
a plan for overhauling and up-grading
the city's 86- mega-watt
pow-er
plant located on Business Loop 70.
The study will be used as the basis
for seeking voter approval of a bond
issue to pay for improvements to the
city's and maybe the University's
power plant
The proposed study is the follow- u- p
to a report completed this sum
mer. At that time, the engineering
firm of R W Beck & Associates rec-ommended
the city upgrade its pow-er
plant and purchase surplus power
from neighboring utilities instead of
building a new generating facility.
Richard Malon, city Water and
Light Department director, says the
campus power plant was included at
the University's request. " The Uni-versity
had been making noises
about whether the city was inter-ested
in buying out the plant." he
says Malon says the city has sug-gested
splitting the cost with the
University
Ria Fnjters, vice chancellor for
Administrative Services, says the
University original! , v talked with the
city about more than just a possible
city takeover of the plant's opera-tions
She says the University and
the city discussed such options as
having the city pay to upgrade the
campus plant and receive low- pric- ed
power in return and having the Uni-versity
upgrade its plant with state
money.
Ms. Fnjters says the Henningson
firm's proposal emphasizes the
city's interests, while overlooking
"
See CITY, Page 6A
It's not all champagne and fun;
some evenings fizzle and go flat
By John M. Ebemart and Christina Paule
Mlssourian staff writers
Several years ago, Kevin Walsh, 707 Morrungside
Drive, went to San Francisco with his girlfriend to
celebrate New Year's Eve. " On the ride out, whatev-er
was between us slowly disintegrated," Kevin says
By the time they arrived, they were literally at each
other's throats.
On New Year's Eve, they found themselves fighting
in the middle of a busy intersection. " We had both
gotten out of the car, and ended up stopping traffic be-cause
we were swinging at each other," Kevin savs
To make matters worse, they had to ride back to
Columbia together. " It was a long ride back to Mis-souri
in a Volkswagen."
New Year's Eve usually brings to mind wild parties
with noisemakers, crowds at Times Square and " Auld
Lang Syne." But for Kevin and many other Colum-bians,
New Year's Eve sparks memories of a differ-ent
nature.
They associate the holiday with tunes of excite-ment,
hardship, camaraderie or loneliness.
Here's a sampling of some of the most memorable
New Year's Eve stones Missounan reporters found in
a senes of interviews :
It will be a long time before Leslie Shouse, 2401 W
Broadway, forgets the marriage proposal she re-ceived
on New Year's Eve in 1978.
It was her senior year of high school. The man she
had been dating surprised her by popping the question
on New Year's Eve. The mood was festive, and m her
excitement, she said yes.
But time and distance caused them to drift apart.
And a few years later, she met someone who she felt
better suited her new identity. " I met him at a basket-ball
game and fell madly in love. It was pretty much a
storybook romance."
But life is rarely like a storybook. More often, it re-sembles
an episode of " I Love Lucy," as Harry Boul's
New Year's Eve story illustrates. Harry, who lives at
909 College Park Dnve, took his wife and child to
Florida in 1976. The vacation had its ups and downs.
Things started on a relaxing note with a visit to Key
West. Harry Liked the laid- bac- k attitude of the people '
there Even time was unimportant none of the clocks
on the island showed the same tune ' It was nice. The
clock on the bank was wrong and nobody even cared."
Miami was more hectic. The family decided to go to
the horse races, so they got on a tour bus only to find
that they were the only Americans on board! All the
other passengers were Cuban. " The tour guide asked
how many wanted Spanish spoken and how many
wanted English. Three little hands went up for the En-glish,"
says Harry. The Bouls were treated to a Span-ish
rendition of the sights of Miami, none of which
they could understand.
The bus tour was a trial, but it was onlv a foreshad-owing
of things to come. When they tned to go home,
Harry and his family were subjected to the madness
of the Miami airport. Because of the fuel shortage,
flights were scarce, and the family was stranded in
the airport for more than seven hours " Finally, they
worked us into a schedule of short hops, and we ended
up making seven take- off- s and landings before we got
to St. Louis."
Jim Stratil and George Getz, 305 S. Fifth St., stayed
in town three years ago and had a more typical cele-bration.
" We were having this New Year's Eve blast
at George's house," says Jim. They drank beer from 7
p. m. to midnight, then broke out the champagne. Lat-er,
while sitting outside as the party wound down,
they saw a friend stumble out the door toward his car.
He'd had too much to dnnk. George laughed as he told
the story. " He was crawling out to his car with his
keys and I said, ' You're not going to dnve, are you''
And he said, ' I have to, I'm too drunk to walk.' " For-tunately,
they talked him out of dnving.- -
Jim and George's party story may sound common- -
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75th Year - No. 93 Good Morning! It's Friday, December 31, 1P82 3 Sections - 14 Pages - 25 Cents
Liquor store employee John Lee
Brown, right, stands among debris af- - i
ter about 100 looters smashed into the
Overtown business Thursday. Below, ,
Miami police make an arrest after the '
looting, in which $ 80,000 of liquor was
taken or destroyed.
Miami quiet
after rioting
flares again
MIAMI ( UPI) Authorities lifted barricades
and allowed bars and liquor stores to open again
Thursday night in the Overtown ghetto,
wracked by two days of rioting that left two peo-ple
dead and 26 injured.
Earlier in the day looters swarmed back into
a liquor store they had previously sacked and
when heavily armed police dragged them out an
angry crowd gathered, shouting insults and
taunting the officers.
A small vacant house just outside the police
perimeter burned and Miami Fire Department
Capt. Ray Mears said " I can't say whether it's
related to all this going on around here, but
somebody had to light that stuff. It didn't just
start burning by itself."
About 50 neighborhood residents watched fire-men
extinguish the blaze.
Police reported scattered incidents of black
youths throwing rocks and bottles at motorists.
Shortly after nightfall City Manager Howard
Gary withdrew police task forces and lifted his
restncbons placed on a 250- blo- ck area of Over- tow- n
Tuesday. It meant that citizens could enter
and leave the area freely and bars, liquor stores
and service stations could reopen.
" I am asking the community and leaders to
keep up the good work," said Gary, who is
black. He said 150 to 200 policemen would re-main
at perimeter outposts around the area,
and the normal patrols in Overtown 40 to 45
men on a shift would resume.
By mid- evefli- ng as many as half the bars in
the district had re- open- ed, and reported only
normal business.
Gary also said the Orange Bowl parade Fri-day
night, which passes near the ghetto, would
go on as usual. " We have implemented the nec-essary
programs to ensure Uie safety and con-venience,
as we always have in the past, for
large numbers of people," he said.
Police said small bands of blacks continued to
create minor disturbances in the area, but over-all
the situation was the most peaceful it has
been since the violence erupted Tuesday eve-ning.
Authorities also reported no trouble in the
nearby Liberty City area, where three days of
, :: UetoB WWKFOm llHmttR lmm
reasWmMmmF. MmMmmmm
noting killed 18 people in 1980, and rock- and- bot-- tle
throwmg broke out Wednesday night.
" You guys are just waiting with your shot-guns
to kill a nigger. All you want to do is kill
ruggers," the black youths shouted at officers
outside the liquor store earlier.
The crowd grew even angrier when the police
attempted a show of force by marching two
abreast in formation through the streets of the
ghetto.
Officers acting as " drill sergeants" barked
orders at the lines of about 75 patrolmen clad in
shiny black riot helmets, bullet- pro- of vests and
carrying clear plexiglas shields, clubs and shot-guns.
" Let's close up those lines," one chief officer
yelled. " Keep ' em straight. About face. For-ward
march."
The lines marched up and down the streets in
no apparent Section drawing jeering young
blacks to each corner.
UPI Telephotos
Some youths began hurling bottles from the li-quor
store into the streets, which were Uttered
with broken bottles, cancelled checks and other
debns from the earlier looting.
" They took what they wanted and busted ev-erything
else before they left," said John Lee
Brown, 33, who was m the shop repairing dam-age
when the first wave of about 100 looters hit.
He said they carted off or destroyed $ 80,000
worth of liquor.
Police quickly broke up the first band of loot-ers
by lobbing tear gas canisters into their
midst, sending them coughing and scrambling
for fresh air. Several were taken into custody.
At least 40 people have been arrested since
the rioting began, most for them for burglary
and looting. Three businesses have been de-stroyed
and four others badly damaged.
Brown said the liquor store owners planned to
put steel across the front of the building to pre-vent
further raids.
Economic indicators improve
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - The in-dex
of leading economic indicators
climbed 0.8 percent in November
and continued to point toward an
economic recovery eagerly awaited
since spring, the government said
Thursday.
Seven of the 10 individual mea-surements
making up the Commerce
Department's composite index
showed improvement and made the
month's change more broadly based
than any since July although still
relatively shallow.
President Reagan's spokesman
said the report is a signal that " the
economy will recover."
In a separate report that contained
more substantial good news for the
economy, the department said
Thursday the sale of new houses
jumped 12 percent in November to
the highest rate in two years.
The housing industry's suppliers
are widely dispersed throughout the
economy, prompting analysts in and
Housing sales jump 12 percent
out of the government to hope the
improvement will spread.
The rise in sales occurred despite
an enormous jump in the average
price of a new house, to $ 88,600 from
October's $ 79,800.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm
Baldrige called the month's increase
in the indicators " a good advance,"
but noted the index " points to an
economy moving toward recovery,"
not one that is already getting well.
Baldrige blamed high interest
rates, which persisted into July, for
causing " the unusually long lag be-tween
the first rises in the- leadin- g in-dicators
and the recovery."
The index had climbed a revised
0.3 percent in October and 0.8 per-cent
in September. It began sending
tantalizing signals of improvement
in April, a period when administra-tion
spokesmen were most confident- -
ly predicting an imminent recovery.
However, the recession has per-sisted,
driving unemployment to 10.8
percent, the highest level since the
Great Depression.
At Palm Springs, Calif., deputy
White House press secretary Larry
Speakes told reporters the new indi-cators
" provide an additional en-couragement
that the economy will
recover from the current recession.
" We regard these indicators as an
important signal that the foundation
for recovery is developing in the
coming year," he said.
However, critics of the index say it
is too easily swayed- - by large
movements in purely financial mea-surements
and does not accurately
predict actual business conditions
that determine production and em-ployment.
Columbia's unemployment rate
lowest of state's major cities
By Bennle M. Currle
Mlssourian staff writer
Missouri's unemployment rate has
increased a little more than 2 per-cent
in the last year, but Columbia's
remains the lowest of any major city
in the state, according to the Missou-ri
Division of Employment Security.
The state's November jobless rate
was 9.4 percent, up from 8.7 percent
in October and up from 7.3 percent in
November 1981. That means 214,142
Missourians are now out of a job,
said Tom Righthouse, the division's
chief of research and analysis.
Columbia's November unemploy-ment
rate of 5.7 percent is up from
October's rate of 5.3 percent and is
exactly-- 1 percentage point higher
than it was in November 1881.
i
Jobless rates I
Columbia .57 B
Joplln .. 96 H
Kansas City 86 1
St Joseph 104 n
St Louis .10 2 I Springfield 82
There were 3,255 Columbians out
of Jobs in November, Righthouse
said.
While Columbia's jobless rate has
risen, it still remains the lowest of
any major city in Missouri.
Springfield's unemployment rate
of 8.2 percent is the second lowest of
the state's major cities.
The division attributed the state's
high jobless rate to a decrease in ag-ricultural
activity and layoffs in the
construction industry.
9 p. m. to 1 a. m. " Tuxedo Junction,"
an evening of dancing to music pro-vided
by Jim Widner's Big Band. At
Ramada Inn, 1100 Vandiver Drive.
Tickets are $ 60 per couple including
dinner, $ 35 per couple without dinner.
Inside
Business 5A
Classified 3CA
Comics 4B
Opinion 4A
Record SA
Sports 1- 2- C
Columbian named
curator candidate
Officials laud Bond's selection
By Scott Schultz
Missounan staff writer
Jeanne Epple, executive director
of the Boone County Mental Health
Association, is one of three Missour-ians
whom Gov Christopher Bond
plans to appoint to the University
Board of Curators
Bond announced Thursday that he
intends to name Vrs Epple, 3412
Woodrail Terrace, Kenneth Heath,
East Prairie, Mo ; and W H. Bates,
Kansas City, Mo , to fill the vacan-cies
of outgoing members, William
Doak, Robert Dempster and Daniel
Brenner
Friends and co- work- ers of Mrs.
Epple were excited about Bond's
choice of Mrs Epple
" I was just thinking of writing
Governor Bond a note to congratu-late
him on making the best possible
appointment he could have made,"
said Grace Edwards, chairman of
the Boone County Republican Cen-tral
Committee
Associate University Provost
Charles Campbell applauded the
governor's selection of Mrs Epple
' She has clearly demonstrated in
a number of community, civic and
service organizations her intelli
gence, ability to ponder complex is-sues,
and then move ahead with per-sonal
resolve," Campbell said
Campbell said Mrs. Epple " will
understand the role of a land grant
institution," which he likened to a
three- legge- d stool He said the three
missions of these institutions are re- - ,
search, campus teach i and exten-sion
services These r i scions the
legs of the stool t - J ap th insti-tution
Campbell said that during tight
economic times, administrators tend
to concentrate on improving one
mission at the expense of the others,
which could topple the chair
" Mrs. Epple will keep the legs on
that three- legge- d chair well- balanced- ."
he said.
The appointments to the board are
for six- ye- ar terms and must be ap-proved
by the state Senate.
Mrs. Epple would become the sec-ond
woman on the board
The other is Marion Oldham of St.
Louis. Her six- ye- ar term will expire
in two years The board has been the
center of much controversy in recent
years, the most recent of which was
Mrs Oldham's charge last week that
she was not elected board president
because she is black.
City Council to tackle
power plant controversy
By Dean Kahn
Missounar staff writer
When the city's Droposed power
plant stady is presented to the City
Council for consideration Monday, a
$ 37,000 slice will be left unresolved
That money w ould pay for a study
of whethe' the city should take over
operation of tne Umv ersity's power
plant
The city ays the University re-quested
that study and should help
pay for it Uni. ersitj officials are
questioning whether they would get
their money -- vorth ,
The camnus plant study is an op-tional
part of the city's overall pow-er
plant rehabilitation study At the
council's previous meeting, the city
staff reconnrpended that a Minneapo-lis
firm, Henningson, Durham &
Richardson, be paid $ 121,000 to de-velop
a plan for overhauling and up-grading
the city's 86- mega-watt
pow-er
plant located on Business Loop 70.
The study will be used as the basis
for seeking voter approval of a bond
issue to pay for improvements to the
city's and maybe the University's
power plant
The proposed study is the follow- u- p
to a report completed this sum
mer. At that time, the engineering
firm of R W Beck & Associates rec-ommended
the city upgrade its pow-er
plant and purchase surplus power
from neighboring utilities instead of
building a new generating facility.
Richard Malon, city Water and
Light Department director, says the
campus power plant was included at
the University's request. " The Uni-versity
had been making noises
about whether the city was inter-ested
in buying out the plant." he
says Malon says the city has sug-gested
splitting the cost with the
University
Ria Fnjters, vice chancellor for
Administrative Services, says the
University original! , v talked with the
city about more than just a possible
city takeover of the plant's opera-tions
She says the University and
the city discussed such options as
having the city pay to upgrade the
campus plant and receive low- pric- ed
power in return and having the Uni-versity
upgrade its plant with state
money.
Ms. Fnjters says the Henningson
firm's proposal emphasizes the
city's interests, while overlooking
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It's not all champagne and fun;
some evenings fizzle and go flat
By John M. Ebemart and Christina Paule
Mlssourian staff writers
Several years ago, Kevin Walsh, 707 Morrungside
Drive, went to San Francisco with his girlfriend to
celebrate New Year's Eve. " On the ride out, whatev-er
was between us slowly disintegrated," Kevin says
By the time they arrived, they were literally at each
other's throats.
On New Year's Eve, they found themselves fighting
in the middle of a busy intersection. " We had both
gotten out of the car, and ended up stopping traffic be-cause
we were swinging at each other," Kevin savs
To make matters worse, they had to ride back to
Columbia together. " It was a long ride back to Mis-souri
in a Volkswagen."
New Year's Eve usually brings to mind wild parties
with noisemakers, crowds at Times Square and " Auld
Lang Syne." But for Kevin and many other Colum-bians,
New Year's Eve sparks memories of a differ-ent
nature.
They associate the holiday with tunes of excite-ment,
hardship, camaraderie or loneliness.
Here's a sampling of some of the most memorable
New Year's Eve stones Missounan reporters found in
a senes of interviews :
It will be a long time before Leslie Shouse, 2401 W
Broadway, forgets the marriage proposal she re-ceived
on New Year's Eve in 1978.
It was her senior year of high school. The man she
had been dating surprised her by popping the question
on New Year's Eve. The mood was festive, and m her
excitement, she said yes.
But time and distance caused them to drift apart.
And a few years later, she met someone who she felt
better suited her new identity. " I met him at a basket-ball
game and fell madly in love. It was pretty much a
storybook romance."
But life is rarely like a storybook. More often, it re-sembles
an episode of " I Love Lucy," as Harry Boul's
New Year's Eve story illustrates. Harry, who lives at
909 College Park Dnve, took his wife and child to
Florida in 1976. The vacation had its ups and downs.
Things started on a relaxing note with a visit to Key
West. Harry Liked the laid- bac- k attitude of the people '
there Even time was unimportant none of the clocks
on the island showed the same tune ' It was nice. The
clock on the bank was wrong and nobody even cared."
Miami was more hectic. The family decided to go to
the horse races, so they got on a tour bus only to find
that they were the only Americans on board! All the
other passengers were Cuban. " The tour guide asked
how many wanted Spanish spoken and how many
wanted English. Three little hands went up for the En-glish,"
says Harry. The Bouls were treated to a Span-ish
rendition of the sights of Miami, none of which
they could understand.
The bus tour was a trial, but it was onlv a foreshad-owing
of things to come. When they tned to go home,
Harry and his family were subjected to the madness
of the Miami airport. Because of the fuel shortage,
flights were scarce, and the family was stranded in
the airport for more than seven hours " Finally, they
worked us into a schedule of short hops, and we ended
up making seven take- off- s and landings before we got
to St. Louis."
Jim Stratil and George Getz, 305 S. Fifth St., stayed
in town three years ago and had a more typical cele-bration.
" We were having this New Year's Eve blast
at George's house," says Jim. They drank beer from 7
p. m. to midnight, then broke out the champagne. Lat-er,
while sitting outside as the party wound down,
they saw a friend stumble out the door toward his car.
He'd had too much to dnnk. George laughed as he told
the story. " He was crawling out to his car with his
keys and I said, ' You're not going to dnve, are you''
And he said, ' I have to, I'm too drunk to walk.' " For-tunately,
they talked him out of dnving.- -
Jim and George's party story may sound common- -
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